Today's workout was a reprise of the one we did back on January 4 : 5 rounds for time (or AMRAP in 20 minutes): 15 deadlifts (135lbs ...

I'm all kinds of miserable living in this hotel. The bed is lumpy, the kitchen's the size of a shoebox, and I'm allergic to the ...

After five rousing sets of jerks this morning, I was feeling pretty good for someone who hasn't slept more than half a wink per night in...

The badger crawls from Monday did a number on my shoulders. I was surprised at how a quick little workout completely wrecked me, and hoped t...

It's been a while since I faced a barbell-intensive WOD at the gym, so I was half-hoping we'd get one thrown at us this morning. Not...

My quads haven’t stopped aching since Murph , so I’ve been squeezing into a pair of compression pants before bedtime for the past few nights...

If nothing else, today's workout offered proof that endorphin-generated exercise-induced euphoria is very, very real. Strength Skill: ...

To make sure I didn't kick off the week with another set of penalty burpees, I arrived at the gym a few minutes early this morning. But...

Looks like word is getting out about the pre-dawn class at CrossFit Palo Alto . Even with a handful of regulars missing in action today, 11 ...

Strength Skill: Jerks (2 sets of 5, 3 sets of 3) It's been awhile since our last encounter with jerks at the gym (as part of a stren...

Another good one today. Strength Skill: Muscle-Up Progressions My goal was to pull off another dead-hang muscle-up by the end of today...

Ten people in class this morning -- a 1000% increase in just eight months! All of us took turns messing around with skin-the-cats on the Oly...

Here in the U.S., it's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. And on holidays, our CrossFit gym rolls out Hero WODs to honor the fallen. Today, w...

I'm still sore from slogging through Whitten on Friday, but it still felt good to get back in the gym this morning. After all the holid...

Strength Skill: Jerks (3 sets of 3, 2 sets of 1) I was feeling pretty good this morning, but jerks are not my forte. Lighter weights (~1...

Dead tired this morning. But I dutifully hauled my lazy ass out of bed and to my 5 a.m. class. Strength Skill: Jerks (2 sets of 5, 3 sets...

Strength Skill: Strict Presses (3 sets of 3, then 3 sets of 1, working up to a 1-rep max) I'm kind of terrible at these. Sadly, this...

The Washington Post just posted a write-up about CrossFit's role in the resurgence of Olympic weightlifting -- a "total-body tech...

Strength Skill: Single-Leg Deadlifts Before this morning, we hadn't practiced single-leg deadlifts  since July . Not surprisingly, I...

I'm a little under the weather, but not enough to justify scuttling my workout. After some warm-up (I did 2 double-unders!), we practi...